The FreeBSD GNOME Project

What software does the GNOME Team maintain?

The GNOME Team maintains the GNOME, MATE, and
Cinnamon desktop environments.

What is GNOME?

GNOME is a complete graphical desktop for X,
including everything from a window manager to
web browsers, audio players, office programs,
graphical login programs and more. MATE is
a continuation of the old GNOME 2 desktop
environment. Cinnamon is originally a fork
of GNOME 3's gnome-shell, but grew into its own
desktop environment.

How to install these desktop environments?

There are some so called meta ports available for
installing these desktop environments or parts of
them. They are:

gnome3 (full GNOME desktop)

gnome3-lite (minimal GNOME desktop)

mate (full MATE desktop)

mate-lite (minimal MATE desktop)

cinnamon

The easiest way of installing is to run the
following command and replace gnome3 with the
desktop environment of choice:

# pkg install gnome3

Or if you prefer to build from source:

# cd /usr/ports/x11/gnome3
# make clean
# make install clean

State of the port:

GNOME, MATE, and Cinnamon for FreeBSD are currently
fully supported on 10.2, 10.1, and 10-STABLE while
support for 9.3, 9-STABLE, and 11.0-CURRENT is provided
on a best effort basis.

GNOME is simple and easy to build using the FreeBSD ports
system, but sometimes things simply go wrong. Please
see our Bug reporting
page for more info.